Meet the Monks! An Evening Open House with Your New Neighbors from Clear Mountain Monastery

Curious about the monastic neighbors who’ve just moved to North Bend? As new members of the Snoqualmie Valley Community, Clear Mountain’s monks, Ajahn Kovilo and Ajahn Nisabho, hope to develop deep and meaningful relationships with those who’ve built lives here, even as they work to create something new: a 90-acre refuge of meditation and quiet open to all. A video about their recent walk to the land, and aspiration, may be found here: Walk to the Mountain: A Vision Lands | A 3-Day Community Pilgrimage Documentary.

Come hear about Clear Mountain Monastery’s vision, ask questions, and meet the monks (we’re nice!), 6-8 pm Thurs. Feb. 4th at Sage & Spice Indian Fusion (580 SW Mt Si Blvd, North Bend). Food and drink (non-alcoholic; we’re monks!) provided. A first “Meet the Monks” will take place from 6-8pm Thurs. Dec. 17th also at Sage & Spice if you can’t wait till February 🙏☺️🙏. A special thanks to restaurant owners Sree and Ashok for hosting us!

Biographies:
Ajahn Kovilo
Ajahn Kovilo encountered meditation through the Goenka tradition & entered the monastery in 2006, receiving full ordination from Ajahn Pasanno and Ajahn Amaro at Abhayagiri Monastery in California in 2010. He spent the next decade training in Ajahn Chah monasteries in the U.S. and Thailand, completing all levels of the Nak-Tham Exams in Thai while there. In 2020, after a year at a Pa Auk Sayadaw monastery, he enrolled at Dharma Realm Buddhist University to study Pāli and Mahāyāna practices. Ajahn Kovilo served as the editor of Stillness Flowing & Gold Wrapped in Rags, & is the compiler/translator of Thus Should You Train Yourselves & The Wellbeing Cascade. Ajahn Kovilo now lives in North Bend, devoted to Clear Mountain full time.

Ajahn Nisabho
After finishing college in 2012, Ajahn Nisabho left his native Washington to go forth as a Buddhist monk in Thailand. He received full ordination the following spring under Ajahn Anan, a senior disciple of renowned meditation master, Ajahn Chah, and spent the following years training in forest monasteries around the world with contemporary masters such as Ajahn Anan, Ajahn Pasanno, and Ajahn Jayasaro. Over these years, he came to believe the tradition represented a faithful embodiment of the original Buddhist path able to yield great fruit even amidst the complexities of modern life. In the summer of 2021, he returned to Seattle to plant the first seeds of Clear Mountain Monastery.